Jim's Post 65
"A bolshevik plot....taken straight out of the book."
That could be a big part of it. DOS kiddies like to screw with us.
By the way, for those who are wondering about FR's hardware, my understanding is that we have about a dozen servers at the data center. About half of them are dedicated to handling Free Republic back-end processing. We also have a couple front-end servers directing the traffic and balancing the load, a couple database servers, an administrative server, a secure server, and a real-time database backup server. We have two main IP's, one as a standby if the first goes down. We also have some older servers that John uses for backup and development.
Theoretically, we have a fail-safe system. The "fail" seems to be working great, now we're working on perfecting the "safe" part.
It appears that our current series of crashes have to do with our traffic load. It appears that our servers begin overloading and first one crashes (by becoming completely jammed and failing to respond) then the next, and the next, etc, until the entire system and all backups fail to respond. That's when we have to start rebooting. And we've had some problems recently with our rebooting process.
We do not know yet why we are overloading. We have been able to handle several times our normal load with no problem. We do not rule out DOS attack, but cannot find anything in the logs to identify it. John will continue trying to isolate the problem, but we do not feel at this time that it is for a lack of server power.
All I can say is, please bear with us. We've experienced these kinds of systems problems before whether hardware, software, balancing or Bolshevik, and have always been able to work through or around them eventually.
God willing, we will persevere!
Me too. It is an honor though to be worthy of attack.
Mmm.. fine in the UK, but I did get my login disabled for no reason I know of.
Are you logged in?
I’ve suspected this for a couple days now. I have a huge pipe and when I cant bring a webpage up in less than a second or so its down. Dont know if a DOS attack by running or something more sinister.
One other thing, you have to watch clicking on links. I forget what link I clicked on but all my bells and whistles went off and the site was denied access by my firewall. I did a scan and nothing entered the system but how many folks run tight security?
directly and/or indirectly—bigbromofo at the bottom every woodpile!!!!!!
The commies don’t like free speach. It must be stopped in any way necessary.
~rolling my eyes~
I opened my browser this morning and nothing. This has been happening for a week. I keep thinking my router is faulty but other sites work.
FR is my startpage, so it can be confusing
It is not FR/Jim’s fault.
All postings per SecurityFrauMarshal Jhanet Napalitano go through various agency servers. That is what is slowing up everything. Now that the weekend is over the FBI/CIA/DHS, their I.T. guys will sort it out by March, July at the latest.
You can go to this site for updates and explanations when FR is slow or down...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/
Especially look for posts by “jimrob”.
Same here, frustrating!
Yep. Been getting “proxy errors”.
I am glad that I saw this. I was about to un-install/re-install my Firefox browser. Yesterday, I couldn’t even log on to the main address. I at least feel better knowing I wasn’t the only one having problems.
BUSH’S FAULT
Yep, here in Dallas, Texas having issues opening the site for the past couple of weeks.
I notice when Free Republic wont load, and also gun forums wont load, that it seems to be hung up on Googleanalytics. Site pages wont load and pictures of guns wont load here, it is always hung up on googleanalytics.
I figured the traffic to the site was heavy.....All others work fine....
Yes! server over load I would suspect. When something breaks we head HERE, not our TV’s or radios.